So are you suggesting that merely because the police see a gun in the car they’re entitled to kill someone? Because I watched the video, and I don’t see where there’s any indication he was actually reaching for the gun. in fact, one of the officers actually had him in his physical control at the time that somebody else started yelling gun. so I’m just gonna suggest that this might not be a good shoot solely because the police didn’t have any basis to believe that he was reaching for the gun. Of course, the video cuts off at an inconvenient time it doesn’t actually show a gun at all. so it’s hard to tell.
Non compliance isnt a reason to shoot someone. No matter how silly what he was saying from the car might be. The cop has every right to laugh at him not shoot him.
You are not wrong with regards to what transpired but i think the cops could have just as easily De-escalated it. They are allegedly “trained” to do so. Conflict resolution and all that jazz
The fist cop did. The rest didn’t.
Respectfully opening the door and trying to drag him out isn’t de escalation. It was then that he allegedly switched hands and reached
They were beyond the point of no return. He was given every opportunity to avoid that. The driver’s choices brought it to the point that it was time to drag him out.
And then the driver took it to yet another level after that by going for the gun.
To be blunt, I’m tired of the nearly universal call for cops to stand down in these incidents. Yes, some are more blatant than others (on the cop’s part), but this one is not one of them.
Oh he is one of those idiots who spouts pseudo legal babble that means nothing. We have the same nutters in the UK called Freeman of the Land.
Among their idiotic beliefs is that the USA is a corporation and therefore some of them carry ID cards that declare them ambassadors of America to get out of having a driving license or paying fines LOL.
It doesn’t matter what he was doing. He could have been texting his mother. You reach for a gun and you’re going to get shot. However, I think they did mention the holster turned out to be empty.